NEA Grant Search - Data as of 02-10-2020 36 matches Tulane University (aka ) 1849659-55-19 New Orleans, LA 70118-5665 To support supplemental features for the public radio program American Routes. The long-running radio program will be enhanced with artists' interviews and live performances featuring lesser- known traditional artists whose work has influenced prominent artists, as well as recordings of performances from the stages of folk festivals and concerts across the nation. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 1 Grant Amount: $50,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Folk & Traditional Arts Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Loyola University New Orleans 1853097-78-19 New Orleans, LA 70118-6143 To support a performance by classical Indian dance ensemble Ragamala, with related outreach activities. In addition to a public performance, the university will present a lecture/demonstration, a family-focused workshop, an artist meet-and-greet, and an exhibit of traditional Indian costumes. The university will work with local partners, including the Indian Arts Circle, to promote the events to the Asian Indian community in New Orleans. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 1 Grant Amount: $10,000 Category: Challenge America Discipline: Challenge America Grant Period: 01/2020 - 12/2020 Tulane University (aka ) 1854577-34-19 New Orleans, LA 70118-5665 To support personnel and related costs for the public radio program American Routes. Hosted by Nick Spitzer and distributed nationally by the Public Radio Exchange, American Routes explores issues of American culture through its vernacular music, ranging from blues and jazz, to soul, gospel, Tejano, and country. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 1 Grant Amount: $25,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Media Arts Grant Period: 07/2019 - 06/2020 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage (aka ) 1846606-55-19 Foundation, Inc. New Orleans, LA 70116-2436 To support artist fees for performances at the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival Presented in historic downtown New Orleans, the festival will celebrate the blues tradition of Louisiana and the Delta South. Performers are likely to include renowned blues artists such as such Little Freddie King, Valerie June, and Samantha Fish. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $35,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Folk & Traditional Arts Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Dancing Grounds 1846996-33-19 New Orleans, LA 70117-5747 To support dance residencies for students. Students from public schools in New Orleans' Ninth Ward will study dance technique and choreography, leadership and teamwork, and physical fitness through a program that combines active, kinesthetic learning with creative analysis, studies of dance history, field trips, and group performance projects. Students will experience dance as a means of developing voice and creativity and will conceive, choreograph, and produce a live performance or video by the end of the school year. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $15,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Dance Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Ella Project 1847230-62-19 New Orleans, LA 70116-2039 To support professional development and pro bono legal services for artists and arts organizations. The organization will offer services to low- and moderate-income artists, musicians, and nonprofit organizations throughout Louisiana, including assistance with copyright, trademark, licensing, incorporation, and other legal issues. Services for musicians will be enhanced through technical assistance clinics focused on copyright and performer royalty registration. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $30,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Local Arts Agencies Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Contemporary Arts Center (aka CAC) 1847345-41-19 New Orleans, LA 70130-3971 To support the exhibition Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension. The exhibition, which takes its name from the writings of Marcel Duchamp, will feature new work by contemporary women artists in a challenge to the patrimony of 20th-century European modernism. Participating artists will include Sarah Crowner, Julia Dault, Leslie Hewitt, Erin Shirreff, Ulla von Brandenburg, Adriana Varejão, and Claudia Wieser. Public programming—developed in partnership with local and national organizations—will focus on women's issues and gender equity, especially as relevant in art history. A publication published by Siglio Press will add to the exhibition's scholarship. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $25,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Visual Arts Grant Period: 01/2019 - 06/2019 Arts Council of New Orleans 1847424-62-19 New Orleans, LA 70113-1256 To support LUNA Fete, an annual illumination festival. National, international, and local commissioned artists will create temporary, site-specific light and technology artworks. The works will be installed along a half-mile walk near downtown New Orleans' Lafayette Square. The festival also will include year-round programming such as training programs on light and technology-based art for local artists and youth. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $75,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Local Arts Agencies Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Friends of A Studio in the Woods (aka ) 1847432-72-19 New Orleans, LA 70131-3204 To support multidisciplinary artist residencies. Resident artists will have the opportunity to respond to the ongoing ecological changes in the Louisiana wetlands due to forces such as settlement, industry, and coastal restoration efforts. An open call will be issued for artists with a history of working on environmental and culturally related issues, as well as a commitment to producing work with deep connections to the subject matter. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $15,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Artist Communities Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Kid Smart (aka KID smART) 1847985-51-19 New Orleans, LA 70119-2384 To support artist residencies and professional development training for teachers in arts integrated instruction. Through the Creative Schools program, teachers will learn to incorporate arts-based learning throughout the school day. Project activities will include year-long, in-school artist residencies, monthly professional development training for classroom teachers, and ongoing training for resident teaching artists. Curriculum materials will be provided free-of-charge. In addition, children and their parents will participate in a series of family workshops to engage in creative, hands-on activities that will support student learning. Designed in partnership with public charter schools in New Orleans, the program will serve kindergarten and middle school students from underserved communities. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $40,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Arts Education Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 New Orleans Airlift Inc. (aka The Music Box) 1848133-54-19 New Orleans, LA 70117-6128 To support the creation and presentation of Rites of Return: A Homecoming Drill and Ceremony. The Music Box will collaborate with artists, veterans, and veterans' service groups to create an immersive performance event based on the personal stories and experiences of veterans returning from war. Taking place on the grounds of the Mirabeau Water Garden in New Orleans, the site- specific work will utilize storytelling, drumming, processions, visual arts, military drills, reenactments, dances, and song. Artistic collaborators will include playwright Raymond "Moose" Jackson, musical director Mark Stewart, conceptual artist Corazon Del Sol, and theater companies Goat in the Road and Mondo Bizarro. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $35,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2020 Works New Orleans Ballet Association (aka NOBA) 1849624-33-19 New Orleans, LA 70112-1608 To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and engagement programs. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, NOBA will present a special concert featuring artists from its presenting history. Following the celebration, a diverse season begins that will include new commissioned work and community engagement opportunities such as lecture-demonstrations, workshops, master classes, open rehearsals, and pre-performance talks. Featured artists will include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Body Traffic, Trinity Irish Dance Company and Pilobolus. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $45,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Dance Grant Period: 01/2019 - 12/2019 Southern Rep (aka Southern Rep Theatre) 1849724-32-19 New Orleans, LA 70119-2302 To support the production of Azul by Christina Quintana in partnership with the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. The play explores issues of nationality, identity, and family through the eyes of a Cuban-American woman coming to understand the forces that shaped her mother's life and her own. The production will be presented as part of Southern Rep's inaugural season in the company's new permanent home on historic Bayou Road in New Orleans. Fiscal Year: 2019 Congressional District: 2 Grant Amount: $10,000 Category: Art Works Discipline: Theater Grant Period: 01/2019 - 06/2019 Press Street (aka Antenna) 1849929-72-19 New Orleans, LA 70117-5748 To support Antenna's Paper Machine residency program and educational activities. Incorporating